The videos were shot by anonymous Internet users. November 24, 2019, 5:22 PM. Those videos … JON GAMBRELL Associated Press. The videos offer only fragments of encounters, but they fill in the larger void left by Iran’s state-controlled television and radio channels.

As Iran restores the internet after a weeklong government-imposed shutdown, new videos purport to show the demonstrations over gasoline prices rising and the security-force crackdown that followed. The outage coincided with videos being published online of protesters gathering in the city of Behbahan, some 570 kilometers (355 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran. The 2019–2020 Iranian protests (Persian: اعتراضات سراسری ۱۳۹۸ ایران‎) were a series of nationwide civil protests in Iran, initially caused by a 50%–300% increase in fuel prices, and (in some areas) leading to calls for the overthrow of the government in Iran and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The Iranian government has been put under tremendous pressure over the last year, both from the protests and the coronavirus epidemic inside … The protests commenced as peaceful gatherings on the evening of 15 November but spread to 21 cities within hours, as videos of the protest circulated online, eventually becoming the most violent and severe anti-govern… By. As internet restored in Iran, users post protest videos showing the chaos and crackdown that followed. 6 min read. AP released undated footage from protests in Iran on November 24. Protesters in Shiraz were seen running away from heavy gunfire.